Re: intelligent lexically encoding

On Sep 08, 2005, at 11:22 , Jerzy Giergiel wrote:
> sorry for bugging people here with a trivial question. I need to  
> convert from MacRoman encoding to asci (7-bit). Encode package  
> simply replaces out of range characters with a question mark. I  
> need something intelligent lexically speaking. For example aacute  
> should be converted to a. Any suggestions?

Maybe you need to implement your own fallback method.
FYI Encode already has fallback methods as follows.

   $ascii = encode("ascii", $utf8, $fallbacks);

   where;

   $fallback is      á (U+00E1) will be
   ------------------------------------
   Encode::FB_PERLQQ \x{00E1}
   Encode::HTMLCREF  á
   Encode::XMLCREF   á
   ------------------------------------

If any of that will suffice, go ahead use it.  If it does not, you  
have go go like this;

$ascii = $utf8;
$ascii =~ s/([^\x00-\x7f])/&your_own_fallback($1)/eg;

Hope that helps.

Dan the Encode Maintainer